AnomieBOT II

Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki.

Despite T360488 asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround.

This user account is a bot operated by Anomie (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

Live status for all AnomieBOT tasks is available at Toolforge.

Before blocking this bot, please consider disabling the task in question instead (see #Emergency shutoff). If you want to block it anyway, the button to the left will do what you want.

Documentation edit

Technical details edit

AnomieBOT is written in Perl, using a custom API class to access the MediaWiki Action API. It uses SQLite or MySQL for persistent data storage.

In addition to the standard "bot" mode which will only run approved tasks, individual tasks may also be run in a "test" mode that logs proposed edits to the local filesystem instead of actually editing Wikipedia or in an "RFBA trial" mode that will automatically stop after a certain number of edits.

Source code is available at User:AnomieBOT/source. The source may be reused under the same terms as Perl, which is currently available under the GPL and/or the Artistic License; the text of the files posted here on-wiki may also be reused per Wikipedia's licensing for text contributions.

Emergency shutoff edit

Individual tasks may be stopped by writing any non-whitespace content to various pages under User:AnomieBOT II/shutoff/; see the task list below for the specific page corresponding to each task. Many tasks also link the appropriate page from their edit summaries.

Exclusion compliance edit

This bot is an exclusion compliant bot; see {{bots}} for details.

Bot accounts edit

AnomieBOT uses multiple accounts for its various tasks:

AnomieBOT (tasks | contribs) is a general-purpose bot account handling the majority of tasks.
AnomieBOT II (tasks | contribs) has the template editor flag, and will only run tasks that require rights granted by that group.
AnomieBOT III (tasks | contribs) is an adminbot.
MediationBot (tasks | contribs) formerly ran tasks for the now-defunct WP:Mediation Committee.
MedcabBot (tasks | contribs) formerly ran tasks for the now-defunct WP:Mediation Cabal.

Tasks edit

The full list of tasks for all AnomieBOT bots is at User:AnomieBOT/TaskList.

Current edit

Task	Disable	`{{bots}}`	Approval	Description
TFATitleSubpageCreator	Here	Y	Approved 2010-05-31 Supplemental: + 2023-01-08	Fill in the daily subpages of Template:TFA title with the title of each day's featured article.
TemplateUnsubstifier	Here	Y	Approved 2013-11-17	Apply Module:Unsubst to maintenance templates.

Awaiting approval edit

None at this time.

Past edit

Task	Disable	`{{bots}}`	Status	Description
PageCreator3	Here	Y	Completed 2015-01-30	Create redirects from Regional Indicator Symbol pairs to the corresponding flag article.

Barnstars edit

The da Vinci Barnstar is awarded to editors who have "enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work". For writing a new version of User:MediationBot so promptly and without error, and for continuing to provide your excellent bots to the English Wikipedia, I award Anomie and all the User:AnomieBOTs the da Vinci Barnstar. Thank you! For the Mediation Committee, AGK [•] 14:44, 14 February 2011 (UTC)